Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...summer flirtation, unconscious of its serious results - are dyed-in-the-wool Harvard men, and the bits of description are quite cleverly done. The whole thing is true to the life here at Cambridge and the anti-climax is happy. It is perhaps the best thing its author has done this year...
...pretend to be. It is the writer who attempts to use a dialect which he has not thoroughly mastered who lays himself open to just criticism. And assuredly the substitution of "i" for "e," and the occasional use of "me" for "my" do not constitute good Irish dialect, - the author of "Norah's Excuse" to the contrary, not withstanding. A study of the masters of the Irish dialect - and there are plenty of them - would considerably improve the execution of the tale, which in conception...
...book, "Nature and Man in America" is an admirable exposition of the latest views of modern science on the relations of organic life to its environment, treated not in the method of scientific treatises, but in an easy collonial style. In the first part of the book the author traces the effects that geological changes have had upon organic life and especially upon the human race, and in doing so gives an epitome of the geological history of our continent. In the second part he speculates upon the political bearing which the geographical features have had upon the development...
...reads the charming "Sonnets" which Mr. Santayana contributes to this number of the Monthly, there comes an earnest wish that more of its author's work might be published. For all of the five sonnets charm one by reason of a quiet but exquisite elegance of diction, a poetical serenity of thought, and touches of soulful aspiration. Of the five, the first three appear to us to be the best, although perhaps at the most such culling is invidious distinction...
...life of Christopher Columbus by Dr. Justin Winsor, Librarian of the university, deals with the discoverer of America in a manner essentially different from that of any other author on the subject. The aim seems to have been to present carefully collected facts in a way which will enable the reader to form the most real and accurate idea possible of Columbus as a man. Few men have been more written about and had more romances invented to fill out what they ought to have been, but in this work, special pains have been taken to separate the legends from...